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The West's Gaza
h/t InstapunditThe hawks (including me) were wrong about a lot, but some got one thing right. It's going to be a long war. ...When new threats emerged, the White House dismissed them with the whitewash that "core al-Qaeda" was "on the run." All pretenders to al-Qaeda's mantle were little more than a "jayvee" squad, as Obama put it. It's okay to slumber again was the message. One jayvee squad -- the self-styled Islamic State formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS -- now controls the territorial equivalent of Britain and is one of the best-equipped and ideologically committed military forces in the Middle East. Everyday jihadis -- many with Western passports -- enlist in the struggle to create a global caliphate while the "Muslim street" from Turkey to Saudi Arabia follows the Islamic State like a sports team. ...No one in the West wants a generational struggle with jihadism any more than Israel wants perpetual war with Hamas in Gaza. The problem is the enemy always gets a vote. It just may be that the Middle East will become the West's Gaza. And, so far, nobody has a good answer for what to do about it. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-14 |
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